Features:

• Approaches to analyzing problems
• Tables, figures, and boxes
• Preview and review sections
• Case studies and real world examples
• Extensive glossary
• Nutrient deficiencies text boxes
• Focus on practical applications

Regarded by many as an irreplaceable reference tool, this text describes the integration of the landscape environment (climate, soil, and related organisms), its effect on landscape plants, and how to manage both in order to obtain the desired results with reasonable effort. This handbook is a comprehensive guide to the care of trees and covers all aspects of arboriculture. The tree is followed from selection in the nursery to planting and aftercare.

Arboriculture is an analytic, and logically organized guide and is based on sound arboricultural experience and the latest applied research.

Contents

1. Introduction to Arboriculture
2. Plant Structure and Function
3. Site Evaluation: Climate and Environment
4. Planting Site: Soil and Water
5. Benefits of Trees
6. Plant Selection
7. Modifying and Managing the Site
8. Planting
9. Transplanting Large Plants
10. Special Management Situations
11. Preserving Existing Trees
12. Nutrient Management
13. Water Management
14. Pruning
15. Control of Plant Growth
16. Tree Hazard Management
17. Preventative Maintenance and Repair
18. Diagnosing Plant Problems
19. Plant Health Care: The Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines

Appendix
Glossary
Index

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